"We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone."

"To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life."

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

“Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.”

“Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.”

"If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution."

"At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours."

"If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object."

“Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.”

"It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era."

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”

"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."

"A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind."

“Now they can do all these magic things with computers. So you think you get to do something in a movie and you find out you don't get to really do it.”

"At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world."

"Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive"

“I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.”

"Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware."

"I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is."

“I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.”

“Ive never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure theres enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.”

"People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones."

“I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”

“Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.”

“Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.”

“No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane”

"This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended."

“Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.”

“In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.”

“The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.”

“A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.”

“I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.”

"Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software."

“I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.”